“I don't want the Communists in here. But Washington wants vengance on the emperor, because their voters do, and their voters have no fucking idea what's good for them.”
Tommy Lee Jones - General Douglas MacArthur

“I made no campaign promises, because until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of being elected. Now however, I am something more than a hope.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“- Kane: It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
- Jedediah Leland: You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you. As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as if you can make them a present of liberty, as a reward for services rendered.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“- Edith Bolling Galt: That's the last straw! You've got to do something about it. They've no right to say such things about you, even to win an election.
- Woodrow Wilson: They weren't talking about me. That's what they said about Abraham Lincoln when he was running for reelection in 1864.”

Geraldine Fitzgerald - Edith Bolling Galt
Alexander Knox - Woodrow Wilson

“The outlaws went too far when they stole federal funds from my bank. I telegraphed Washington and there's a federal commissioner on his way to take charge of things until we hold the statehood election.”
John Hamilton - Mr. Walsh - Banker [Chs.1-3,10-12]